River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES

o MARCH l6-Both houses to-day disposed of
the project of legislation prohibiting the
leasing of convict labor. The vote in the
House was "a in favor of killing the bill to
- IN favor abOlishing the leasing system.
The House also passed a resolution to APP
point legislative committee of three to re-
port as 70 the best method of employing
convict labor.
The Senate passed tue Marinette incor-
poration bill aud an appropriation of 500
to geo. 4. Tate the defeated contestant for
a seat in the House.
| The House concurred in the following bills
which had passed the Senate: Appropria-
ting S456,0t0 to maintain various charitable,
retOrmatory and penal institutions for the
ensuing two years and to make necessary
improvements. permitting suits against
houses of illfame TO be brought on inform
alton and belief simply; 70 provide for the
formation and goverumget by not less than
twenty five persons of mutual reciprocal
and cooperative associations wishing to en-
gage in the manufacture and distribution
of products or the transaction of general
business
Making it larceny for any person to un-
lawfully sever from the soil of another any
cranberry vines growing thereon: provld-
that when any mlllers and manufacturing
company shall have accumulated capital IN
cash and unpaid premiums amounting to
not less than $780, 600. the commissioner of
insurance shall permit such company to
insure any property, real or personal.
against loss or damage by fire or hgh thing
The following House bills passed To
! incorporate the city of Mansion; requiring
insurance commissioner to state in each
annual report any license issued to life and
for accident insurance companies, the
amount of the guarantee capital of the
com oany receiving the license, and pro-
hibltIng them from issuing any license
unless the law is conformed to and the
guarantee capital is properly secured.
MARCH ls-Gov. Rusk vetoed the bill per-
hitting Douglass county to dredge st.
Louis bay, on the ground that it confiicted
with federal rights The game bill passed
the Senate, also the bill TO incorporate the
city of Mansion.
In the Hcuse there was something in the
nature of a personal collision, Judge Hum
phrey, of Hudson, criticising his colleague
Geo G. Grimm of jefferson, because the
latter insinuated that Humphrey wished to
abolish the state enslon agency because he
was personally hostile to the present pen
sion agent. Grimm apoligized by explain
ing that the Judge misunderstood him,
(he) Grimm meant many outsiders were
hostile to the pension agent.
The House adopted a memorial to Con
SitSH dShlllS tut ltpcdA VI INC law imposing
an annual tax of $500 on oleomargarine man
ufacturers. Bills passed forbidding polling
places being held in saloons; prohibiting
state appropriations to agricultural socie-
ties; prohibiting gambling on grounds
during fairs; multiplying the law permitting
prescriptions of real estate; making IL a
misdemeanor for any public officers to ex-
tort by threats, abuse or trickery, con-
fession from prisoners; and requiring
manufacturers to label cheese according TO
quality.
MARCH 2l-The Senate passed the fol
lowing bills
For the appointment of three fish
wardens at $500 annual salary each;
making the maximum imprisonment for
keeping house of ill-fame three years:
prohibiting stock gambling; prohibiting
the licensing or selling of liquor at any
point outside of and within half a mile of
its boundary of any city, town or village,
when liquor licenses are not granted; for
the appointment Of four game wardens at
an annual salary of s6O0, who shall see that
the game laws are enforced. Requiring per-
sons dealing in oleomargarine to make the
quality of bogus butter known to the pur-
chaser; increasing officers mileage for con-
veying insane patients TO or from asylums
from five cents TO ten cents
The House came up smiling and happy
from the Sunday recess and at the evening
evening passed bills enumerated Permitting
guardians, with the same power as those of
minor children, to be appointed by the pro
bate judges for incuTably insane patients
on application of the superintendent of the
asylums in which they may be confined;
reducing the one mill school tax to One-half
mill: allowing any school district which
maintains school five months during the
year to enjoy the benefits of the common
school fund the same as though school had
been maintained six months; to make EN-
ployers responsible in all instances for in
juries to children under sixteen years of age
employed in manufactures with machinery,
etc; requiring fire insurance companies to
file with their village clerks within three
days after their placing policy state
the amount of insurance and the amount of
the premium, etc; prohibiting lead, coal,
copper and iron-mining companies to issue
stock unless they have permission from the
secretary of state, such permission not TO be
granted until the companies have actually
produced one thousand tons of ore from
their mines; making per cent the maxi
mum legal annual rate of interest; prescrib-
ing the manner of the organization of iron
mining companies and making their mi L
mum and maximum capital stocks Sl00,OOO
and S1,000,000 respectively; providing for
the appointment of mining inspector and
generally guarding the well being of mine
labOreFs giving an annual bounty of five
cents per rod of wire fence maintained
along a highway to the person so maintain
ing IL; requiring the attorney general to
secure from the supreme court, when sslici-
ted TO do so by any person, an opinion as to
the constitutionality of any law